'Boasting' in the Bible
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.
For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but we are giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have such with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.
Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth;
Shew therefore to them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our boasting about you.
But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect, in order that, as I have said, ye may be prepared;
not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly
to announce the glad tidings to that which is beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.
The truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.
What I speak I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
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- Blow (142 instances)
- Boast (114 instances)
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- Brag (17 instances)
- Sport (101 instances)
- Vaunt (5 instances)